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User Options > Rotation Shift Gantt

You can customize your screen by selecting Customized Font Type/ Size, Height of Rows and defining various options concerning Rotation plan.

Go to the Options > Rotation Shift Gantt:

Appearance tab

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Timeblock is the shift block in Rotation.
Select font type and size for rotation module.

Highlight Active time-block by color. There is a possibility to highlight a selected shift with a color you choose.

Confirmed 'Empty Shift' color. When a user confirms a shift to be empty, it is highlighted with the selected color.

Modified shifts frame color - modified shifts are shown in a frame of the selected color.
For example:

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When Apply button is clicked after some modifications, the frame is not shown any more.

1. Hint - used to define colour & time (in seconds) for a hint to be displayed when pointing a mouse to Gantt element and whether to wrap the text in the box.

2. Height of rows with overlapped timeblocks. It is also possible to define height of rows with overlapped timeblocks. This was done for convenience, because it is not always convenient to read persons' names on such shifts.

   Minimum days to define an overlap – is set by the company.

3. Promotion Links. You can define, if you want to see the links between promotions shifts or not.

   If you want the links to be seen, set Show option, select the color and pen width.

   The promotion links will be displayed as the line connecting one shift to another:

    

   If you do not want promotion links to be seen, select Hide option (do not recommend):

Display Data tab

Display Data - here you can select what data should be shown on the Maintenance screen:

In the Period section, select the planning period you want to be displayed by the Gantt:

• Entire plan

• Period between the dates

• Number of days

In the Gantt Tree Area section, you can select the position/rank to be displayed in the Rotation tree as:

• Position code, e.g. CAPT

• Position name

• Rank name

Hide positions that have no shifts in the future. Setting the checkbox lets you hide all positions in the plan that do not have any shifts in the future comparing to current date.

Display department name behind position. You can also set the department name to be displayed after the position name in the Rotation tree. It is very useful if your organization structure contains the same position names in different departments.

Timeblocks section
Scale starts from today - the rotation will show data from today's date.

Display person's initials instead of name

Gantt Diagram Area section

Please set the checkbox for the element that you want to be displayed additionally to standard approach.

Ports & Vessel Projects are displayed right above the assignment section.
a.Plan shows Calling Ports in the top row.
b.Plan shows Vessel Projects under ports row.

It is easy to see relations between shifts and these elements.
Experience/Certification Requirements - It is possible to follow visually Vessel-combined competence requirements during the planning process.

See here for details

Details Area section

If Display additional information in shift details option is selected, you will be able to see contract and payscale information for assigned person on Shift Detail tab.

Requirements Check tab

Required Combined Experience and Competences Check – define interval of days forward, for which Combined Experience validation will be applied.

We do not recommend to set a big number of days but only to limit it to some short planning period (e.g. 30). Setting a long period will result in application poor performance due to increased volume of data for processing.

When the number of days is defined - each Rotation Plan will show additional line Required Competences above all positions in the Rotation tree.
This line will show colored cells for the days, where assigned crew is NOT covering Competence Requirements as defined for this Vessel / Vessel Type / Operator.

See here for details

Shift Assignee Documents Check

In the Interval that need to be checked starting from today's date field you can input a nr of days (in our example 180).

Then all shifts with persons whose documents are expiring within next 3 months will be highlighted with yellow exclamatory sign

Other tab

Other - here you can define additional settings:

1. Define what datagroup/module for assigned person will be opened once you double-click the shift.

2. Enable Rotation Maintenance Log, if needed for issues investigation purpose.

User Options > Personal Activities Gantt

For your convenience, you can customize your Activities Gantt.
Here is possibility to perform filtering by Period or by Activity Codes depending on your current task.

Please go to Options > Personal Activities Gantt > Display Data:

Period - to display only the activities of your interest depending on the dates of planning.

• Entire – no filtering, you see all activities.

• Display from … (defined date)

• Days before today – filters activities in the past not limiting future.
  
  For example, if we set 90 days here, system filter away all activities which do not fit this range (were earlier than today minus 90 days). So, you will see all activities in the period = minus 90 days from today and till the end of your plan.

• Starting from rotation plan first shift date.

Filter Activity Codes - can be useful to filter off (set check-box) any activity codes which are out of your interest.

Defining Colours for Activity Blocks

For convenience, you can define your own colours for activity-blocks for any activity code to be displayed on Activities Gantt:

Go to Setup > General Codes > Activity Codes:

In Display Color filed click browse button and select colour you need.

Click OK to apply coloring.